Virtual Machines Jobs in England

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 306 584
Rank change year-on-year -114 +278 -35
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 490 958 736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.55% 1.11% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 4.57% 7.07% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 409 274 290
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,779 £100,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.13% +17.50% -0.50%

All System Software Skills
England

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10,715 13,556 25,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.06% 15.66% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,571 9,101 13,834
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in England.

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -60 126 £59,500 +3.48% 23
London +96 119 £80,000 +10.34% 51
North of England -74 88 £55,000 +15.30% 19
Midlands -91 56 £46,250 -15.91% 12
South West -88 55 £55,000 +46.67% 17
North West -59 41 £57,500 -11.54% 7
East of England -34 36 £55,000 +69.23% 10
West Midlands -49 36 £48,750 -9.93% 6
Yorkshire -3 34 £42,500 -3.48% 9
East Midlands -53 20 £46,250 -31.48% 6
North East 0 13 £56,250 -2.17% 3
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 58 (11.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (7.76%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.86%) Apache
5 11 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.24%) IIS
6 6 (1.22%) Skype for Business
7 5 (1.02%) Confluence
7 5 (1.02%) Solana
8 4 (0.82%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.61%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.41%) Resin
10 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.20%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 363 (74.08%) Azure
2 114 (23.27%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (16.12%) AWS
4 74 (15.10%) Power Platform
5 72 (14.69%) Entra ID
6 68 (13.88%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (10.41%) Serverless
8 48 (9.80%) IaaS
9 46 (9.39%) SaaS
10 43 (8.78%) Azure Monitor
11 41 (8.37%) Azure Storage
12 36 (7.35%) Azure Functions
13 29 (5.92%) Azure AKS
13 29 (5.92%) GCP
14 28 (5.71%) GitHub
15 27 (5.51%) Amazon S3
15 27 (5.51%) Azure App Service
16 24 (4.90%) Nutanix
16 24 (4.90%) PaaS
17 23 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 96 (19.59%) Firewall
2 94 (19.18%) DNS
3 65 (13.27%) Broadband
4 62 (12.65%) VPN
5 53 (10.82%) DHCP
6 26 (5.31%) LAN
6 26 (5.31%) VLAN
7 23 (4.69%) WAN
8 19 (3.88%) SAN
9 17 (3.47%) HTTP
9 17 (3.47%) Network Security
10 16 (3.27%) 5G
10 16 (3.27%) TCP/IP
11 15 (3.06%) Internet
11 15 (3.06%) VoIP
12 13 (2.65%) Wireless
13 10 (2.04%) iSCSI
13 10 (2.04%) NetScaler
13 10 (2.04%) Unified Communications
14 7 (1.43%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (21.84%) SQL Server
2 79 (16.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 69 (14.08%) Power BI
4 14 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.24%) Apache Hive
5 11 (2.24%) Presto
6 8 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.82%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.82%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.61%) Big Data
10 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.41%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.41%) MySQL
11 2 (0.41%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (11.02%) Git
2 30 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.08%) JIRA
4 10 (2.04%) GitLab
4 10 (2.04%) Trac
5 6 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.22%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.02%) eggPlant
7 4 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.61%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.61%) JUnit
8 3 (0.61%) Selenium
8 3 (0.61%) Subversion
8 3 (0.61%) TestNG
8 3 (0.61%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
General
1 182 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 80 (16.33%) Finance
3 37 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.69%) Telecoms
5 16 (3.27%) Automotive
5 16 (3.27%) Electronics
5 16 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.65%) Manufacturing
7 11 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.04%) Banking
8 10 (2.04%) Games
9 8 (1.63%) Retail
10 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.22%) Law
10 6 (1.22%) Local Government
11 5 (1.02%) Marketing
11 5 (1.02%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.82%) Back Office
12 4 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 80 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 63 (12.86%) DBA
2 63 (12.86%) SQL DBA
3 55 (11.22%) Senior
4 40 (8.16%) Lead
5 39 (7.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 31 (6.33%) Architect
8 25 (5.10%) IT Support
8 25 (5.10%) Software Engineer
9 23 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
10 22 (4.49%) Support Engineer
11 19 (3.88%) IT Engineer
12 18 (3.67%) Infrastructure Architect
12 18 (3.67%) Linux Engineer
13 17 (3.47%) Active Directory Specialist
13 17 (3.47%) Active Directory Support
13 17 (3.47%) Azure Specialist
13 17 (3.47%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.39%) ARM Templates
2 41 (8.37%) .NET
3 18 (3.67%) http4s
3 18 (3.67%) Lambda Expressions
4 17 (3.47%) JWT
4 17 (3.47%) RESTful
5 6 (1.22%) REST
6 5 (1.02%) React
7 4 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.61%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (0.61%) Bazel
8 3 (0.61%) Flash
8 3 (0.61%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.61%) Middleware
8 3 (0.61%) YAML
9 2 (0.41%) ADO
9 2 (0.41%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.41%) JSON
9 2 (0.41%) SOAP
9 2 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 25 (5.10%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (4.49%) Mobile App
5 22 (4.49%) PKI
6 19 (3.88%) Cloud Native
7 16 (3.27%) IoT
8 11 (2.24%) Driving Licence
9 10 (2.04%) Replication
10 8 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.43%) Cyberattack
11 7 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.22%) CCTV
12 6 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.02%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
15 3 (0.61%) IBM Storwize
15 3 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 214 (43.67%) Windows
2 124 (25.31%) Windows Server
3 111 (22.65%) Linux
4 86 (17.55%) VMS
5 45 (9.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 38 (7.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (5.10%) Windows 10
8 18 (3.67%) Ubuntu
9 17 (3.47%) Unix
10 12 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (2.04%) Debian
12 8 (1.63%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (1.22%) CentOS
14 4 (0.82%) Android
14 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.61%) AIX
15 3 (0.61%) SUSE
15 3 (0.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 2 (0.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (32.86%) DevOps
2 124 (25.31%) Disaster Recovery
3 110 (22.45%) CI/CD
4 96 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (18.16%) High Availability
6 87 (17.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 86 (17.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 83 (16.94%) Collaborative Working
9 78 (15.92%) Agile
10 70 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 67 (13.67%) Performance Tuning
12 65 (13.27%) Network Virtualisation
13 59 (12.04%) ITIL
14 55 (11.22%) Microservices
15 52 (10.61%) Containerisation
16 51 (10.41%) Configuration Management
17 47 (9.59%) Software Engineering
18 43 (8.78%) Computer Science
19 34 (6.94%) Analytics
19 34 (6.94%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 112 (22.86%) PowerShell
2 108 (22.04%) SQL
3 87 (17.76%) T-SQL
4 76 (15.51%) Python
5 58 (11.84%) Bash
6 43 (8.78%) C#
7 42 (8.57%) Java
8 40 (8.16%) Bicep
9 20 (4.08%) Perl
10 18 (3.67%) Kotlin
10 18 (3.67%) Scala
10 18 (3.67%) VB
11 17 (3.47%) VBScript
12 11 (2.24%) Go
13 7 (1.43%) C
13 7 (1.43%) C++
14 6 (1.22%) Ruby
14 6 (1.22%) Rust
14 6 (1.22%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 84 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 81 (16.53%) Degree
3 52 (10.61%) Security Cleared
4 38 (7.76%) SC Cleared
5 31 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (5.51%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.47%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (2.04%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.22%) MCP
11 5 (1.02%) ISEB
11 5 (1.02%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.61%) CCNA
12 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.61%) CISSP
12 3 (0.61%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.61%) RHCE
13 2 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 23 (4.69%) QA
2 14 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.24%) GDPR
4 10 (2.04%) PMO
5 8 (1.63%) SLA
6 7 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 134 (27.35%) Active Directory
2 82 (16.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (12.86%) Hyper-V
4 55 (11.22%) Docker
5 32 (6.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 28 (5.71%) vSphere
7 16 (3.27%) pfSense
8 14 (2.86%) NFS
9 12 (2.45%) Virtual Servers
9 12 (2.45%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (1.84%) Ceph
11 7 (1.43%) KVM
12 6 (1.22%) Firmware
12 6 (1.22%) XenApp
13 5 (1.02%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.61%) Gluster
15 3 (0.61%) oVirt
15 3 (0.61%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.41%) Squid
Systems Management
1 91 (18.57%) Terraform
2 86 (17.55%) Kubernetes
3 43 (8.78%) Ansible
4 38 (7.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (6.33%) SCCM
6 25 (5.10%) ZABBIX
7 24 (4.90%) Grafana
8 22 (4.49%) SCOM
9 18 (3.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 18 (3.67%) WSUS
10 17 (3.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (3.27%) SCDPM
12 14 (2.86%) Puppet
13 12 (2.45%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.84%) Prometheus
15 7 (1.43%) CASB
15 7 (1.43%) Nagios
15 7 (1.43%) QRadar
15 7 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (1.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 278 (56.73%) Microsoft
2 103 (21.02%) VMware
3 31 (6.33%) Veeam
4 26 (5.31%) Google
5 25 (5.10%) Cisco
6 24 (4.90%) Fortinet
7 17 (3.47%) Citrix
7 17 (3.47%) Juniper
8 16 (3.27%) ForgeRock
8 16 (3.27%) Sitecore
9 11 (2.24%) Databricks
9 11 (2.24%) HP
9 11 (2.24%) Red Hat
10 10 (2.04%) McAfee
11 9 (1.84%) IBM
12 8 (1.63%) Commvault
12 8 (1.63%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.63%) Splunk
13 7 (1.43%) Oracle
13 7 (1.43%) Rapid7